PTI March Blog Hop

Today I decided to play along in Papertrey Ink's March Blog Hop.  My card also fits with The Paper Dolls' Challenge #46 - Spring Bling.

The challenge was to make a Spring card using yellow and aqua and this photo for our inspiration.  My card base is Aqua Mist, the yellow patterned paper is from October Afternoon Thrift Shop and the aqua patterned paper is from Papertrey Ink's Pretty Pastels collection.  I used the Filigree Border die for my mat layer and the stamps are from Take Three - Spring.  The ribbon is PTI's Harvest Gold satin.

In keeping with his reputation as the Glitter King, my husband suggested that I add the rhinestone for the bunnies' eyes, and I think he was right!

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Berry Sweet of You!

I have a cute little thank you card to show you today.  The main image is from My Favorite Things' Pure Innocence Berry Sweet set. It was colored using Copic markers and her dress was paper pieced.  The patterned papers are from October Afternoon's Fly a Kite collection and the mat layer was made using an Oval Decorative Doily die. The border strips on the horizontal layer were made using the Faux Crochet Border die.

For the inside, I created the sentiment combination using the Layered Label Die set with scraps of the patterned papers from the card front.  I paired it with a Spellbinder's Grommet Tags die and added a couple of red Swarovski crystals.  My card fits for this week's Crazy 4 Challenges C4C124 challenge, which is to use stripes and polka dots.  It also fits for this week's sketch challenge (MFTWSC60) over at My Favorite Things.

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RI Sketch Challenge - Thanks So Much Scrimshaw

There is a new sketch challenge starting over at The House That Samps Built!  For my sample card, I used Sailboat (2704-H), which I stamped on ivory paper with Versafine Onyx Black ink and sponged using Distress Ink (Antique Linen) to make it resemble scrimshaw.  The patterned papers are from October Afternoon's Seaside collection.  The sentiment is Thanks so Much (8607-D) from Quartet Complements and I used some string to tie a square knot, in keeping with the nautical theme!

Please head on over to The House That Stamps Built to get the rules for playing along with the challenge and to see the wonderful cards the rest of the team has made using the sketch!

This is my last posting for the Repeat Impressions design team.  I have some big projects going on at work and have decided that it's best if I take a break from design team assignments for a while.  I hope you'll continue to visit! 

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MFT Sketch Challenge - Baby Yourself

I had a chance to play along with this week's sketch challenge over at My Favorite Things and made a birthday card using the Pure Innocence Lather, Rinse Repeat set.  The image was colored using Copic markers.  I paper pieced the bathtub and the shower cap and used Polar Ice Flower Soft for the bubbles.  The rubber ducky is popped up on a small foam square.  The mat panel was cut out using the Oval Decorative Doily die.  The patterned papers are from October Afternoon's Thrift Shop and Ducks in a Row collections.

The Birthday Girl sentiment is from the Pure Innocence My Balloon set.  Both sentiments were stamped on card stock that was cut out using the Oval Tab die, but I cut off the ends on the Birthday Girl panel using scallop edge scissors to make it fit better. I cut the three scalloped layers on the right side using the Scalloped Scallop die and staggered them.

I repeated the scalloped layers on the inside and used the Happy Birthday image from More Essential Sentiments.    I also repeated the rubber ducky from the front and colored it using Copic markers.

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RI DCC Challenge - For the Guys

Hello! It's time for another Designer's Choice Challenge over at The House That Stamps Built and this time the challenge is For the Guys - make a masculine card. I used the Bottoms Up (2906-I) image and paired it with the Happy Birthday (8606-E) sentiment from Quartet Complements. The patterned papers are from October Afternoon's Ducks in a Row collection.

For the inside of the card, I computer generated my sentiment (it says Hope it's just ducky!) and paired it with a strip of the adorable ducks from the Just Ducky 8x8 pad. Please stop over to The House That Stamps Built to read the details for playing along with the Designer's Choice Challenge for a chance to win a sheet of unmounted stamps and to see the samples the rest of the design team has made!

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Outlines Spring 2011 Blog Hop!

Outlines Spring 2011 Blog Hop!

Welcome to our very first blog hop! We are thrilled to be showing off some brand NEW stamps and designs today! This is a newly designed line of images named "Serendipity" and they just scream to be colored! The Design Team each picked a favorite image and we all are sharing something different. To celebrate this new release we are giving away two $25 Gift Certificates to the Outlines store!

For my card, I selected the Easter Birdies (I-1152) image because whenever I see a bird's nest with eggs, I think robin's egg blue, which is one of my favorite colors!   Oh, this was a fun image to color!!  I wanted to color the flowers in the image like the gorgeous pink dogwoods we have blooming all over our area right now.  The October Afternoon background paper from the Ducks in a Row collection matched the flowers perfectly, although I have covered most of it up!

Here's how to win:

Please visit each blog and leave a comment for each designer.
Comments need to be completed by 8PM on Sunday, April 17th.
Two random winners will be selected from folks that left comments on all the blogs.
Winners will be announced on the Outlines Blog on Monday, April 18th.

Now…where and who to visit:

The Outlines Blog

Bev Gerard - Savor the Journey 

Jeanne Streiff - Inky Paws

Jenny Gropp - One Krafty Kat

Lisa Silver - Silver Stamping

Sandy Hulsart - Creative Moments with Sandy

Vicki Garrett - Summerthyme Studio

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Happy Birthday!

It's a dreary, rainy Monday here in Atlanta, which seems fitting since it's my 50th birthday AND we have a water leak in our house that was running from the first floor into the basement right over the bar in our home theater room.  We had to turn the water to the whole house off last night and we have a plumber coming later this morning.  Ugghhh...not such a happy birthday so far!

On a happier note, this adorable little Pure Innocence girl made her way down to my friend Silke's to wish her a happy birthday last Wednesday!  The patterned papers are from October Afternoon's Thrift Shop collection and BasicGrey's Lemonade 6x6 pad.  Her dress and the present are paper pieced and in Silke's honor, I added a couple of silver pearls for the buttons on her dress. 

For the inside, I used some more of the Thrift Shop papers and a sentiment from Papertrey Ink's Birthday Basics set.  The buttons on the inside were made using a button die from My Favorite Things and were attached to a scrap of the gingham ribbon and tied with some twine.

That's about it.  Hope your week is getting off to a better start than mine!  Be sure to come back on Wednesday for another Belli Challenge!

Thanks for stopping by!

Belli Challenge #95 - Alter It!

It's time for another Belli Challenge and this week's challenge is to alter something you have lying around.  I won this cute little clipboard from Becca Feeken a few months ago and it's been sitting in my stamp room unfinished ever since.  This challenge was just what I needed to get it altered!

I used Mercy Kerin's sketch from last week for my layout, painted the clipboard with a couple of coats of ivory paint and then covered the front with some October Afternoon papers (Report Card and Fly A Kite collections). I used stamps from Papertrey Ink's Studio Style set and colored the buttons and jar using Copic and Spica markers. 

I usually keep a list of cards that I need to make, for design team assignments, birthdays, challenges, etc.  I used the paper crafting theme because I'm planning to keep this in my stamp room with my list clipped to it for reference.  Hopefully this will keep me a little more organized so I don't find myself in a panic the day an assignment is due because I forgot all about it (which is exactly what happened with this clipboard....).

Be sure to head over to the Belli Challenge blog and see what the rest of the design team has altered!  If you'd like to play along with us, pull a long lost treasure out of your stash (think tins, picture frames, jars, clipboards, notebooks, etc.) and alter it!  Be sure to leave a link to your project over on today's post on the Belli blog or use keyword CBC95 if you post it to Splitcoast Stampers.

Thanks for stopping by!

Feel Better (CPS170, CTD96)

Happy Friday!  This morning I decided to make another card using the CPS170 sketch along with the colors from this week's Color Throwdown 96 (So Saffron, Cool Caribbean and Pumpkin Pie).  I inked up this cute little Pure Innocence image from the My Umbrella set and went to town paper piecing!   The patterned papers are from October Afternoon's Ducks in a Row and Piggytales' Cinderella Collection.

The boots and raincoat were paper pieced using the same paper, then I colored a second set of hands and pieced them on top.  The umbrella was cut out of yellow paper and popped up on foam squares, and I colored the handle with a brown Copic marker and an opaque silver marker.  The wooden flower was added on top of the umbrella. 

I cut one of the cute little ducks out of the patterned paper and added him to my sentiment panel, also with foam squares.  And, in keeping with the rain theme, I added a few tear drops from The Robin's Nest in the upper right corner.  Finally, I thought she needed to be standing in some grass, so I took a strip of grass paper and cut it with a Martha Stewart grass edge punch and added it to the bottom of the main panel.

For the inside, I matted a sheet of white paper with the same patterned paper I used for my mat on the front, then added another piece of the big ric rac ribbon and a leftover square of the patterned paper with some of the baby ducks - can't waste it!

Thanks for stopping by! Enjoy your weekend!

Crafty Birthday (CTD92, SC280)

This week one of my Krafty Kat friends is having a birthday, so I pulled out my Papertrey Ink Studio Style set and my new October Afternoon Thrift Shop papers and whipped up this little gem.  The color scheme is from last week's Color Throwdown #92.  The challenge colors were Baja Breeze, So Saffron, Old Olive and Kraft.  I had originally intended to use a Kraft card base, then completely forgot it was one of the colors and used Old Olive.  Hopefully the lid on the button jar will count!   It was colored with a gold Spica glitter pen.

I used last week's sketch from Splitcoast Stampers for my layout.   I made the ruffled flower using two of the smallest sizes of my Big Scalloped Circles Nestabilities dies and a yellow rhinestone brad.  I inked the edges of each layer of the flower with So Saffron ink.

I stamped the button jar and ribbon spool images and cut them out, then colored them each with Copic markers.  I added a layer of Glossy Accents to the button jar to make it look like glass.

When I adhered the main image panel to the card, I realized that I had placed it higher up than I had intended, which left more of the yellow panel exposed than I wanted, so that's how the little button treatment in the bottom right corner was born!

I used two of the sentiments from the set on the inside, along with a few scraps leftover from the front.


For the envelope, I used the leftover negative spaces from the layers behind the main image on the front of the card and added some self-adhesive rhinestones to each of the corners.   With all the scraps I used, I probably should have signed the card to the Crafty Girl from the Thrifty Girl!

Happy Birthday, Sue!  Hope it's a good one!!

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Belli Challenge #85 - Butterflies/Dragonflies

Welcome to another Belli Challenge! This week's challenge is to use butterflies or dragonflies on your project. We also have a sponsor for the challenge - QKR Stampede. QKR Stampede very generously provided each Belli Girl a choice of three stamps for this week's challenge.

My first card uses Herd Birthday on the front and Happy Birthday on the inside. The patterned paper is from October Afternoon. I used the reverse side for my butterfly and for the strip on the inside. The ribbon is from Stampin' UP and the buttons and twine are from Papertrey Ink.

For my second card, I used Tulip Border and Happy Birthday again. The Happy Birthday set comes with four sentiments, so it's a great buy! I paper pieced my tulips using the same papers as I used on the background, which are from Memory Box's Biscotti Collection.

I popped the middle tulip flower up using a foam square and the matted panel is popped up with foam tape. The ribbon is from Martha Stewart and the buttons and dragonfly are from my stash.

For the inside, I used a 1" square punch to create three squares from the same paper I used on the front and paper pieced two more of the tulips. I punched the butterfly with a Martha Stewart punch and added three Memory Box crystals for the body.

We'd love for you to play along with us this week. QKR is offering $30 worth of stamps as the prize, so it would be worth your while to play! If you upload your card to Splitcoast Stampers or Papercraft Planet, use keyword CBC85. Please be sure to check out what all the other Belli Girls, and our guest designer, Jess Stockmeyer have done over on today's post on the Belli blog.

That's about it! Thanks for stopping by!

CPS150 Sweet birthday wishes

TGIF! Hope you have had a good week - I'm looking forward to the weekend! Sunday is Krafty Kat day - always something to look forward to!!

On Monday I posted a card using this same stamp for this week's sketch challenge at Card Positioning Systems. The sponsor for the challenge is October Afternoon, so I decided to do a second version using their 8x8 pad of Cherry Hill papers. This is also a good example of the different looks you can achieve with the same stamps. Everything is pretty self explanatory, the stamps, buttons, twine and ribbon are from Papertrey Ink, the patterned papers are from October Afternoon and the card stock is from Stampin' UP .

To make my paper flower, I used the two smallest Spellbinders Blossom dies with the text paper from the Cherry Hill collection and crumpled them up, then aged them and the rest of the paper panels with Papertrey Ink's tea dye duo inks. That's about it!

Thanks for looking! Enjoy your weekend!

Thank Ewe So Much!

Happy Thursday! Hope you are staying warm - it's 24 degrees here in not-so-Hotlanta. They are calling for snow this afternoon, which is a pretty rare occurrence here.

I made this card for Card Positioning Systems' CPS148 sketch challenge, which is sponsored by Gina K. Designs. The sheep and the sentiment are from Gina K.'s Down on the Farm set. They are paired with October Afternoon's Farm Fresh, Farm Yard paper - a match made in Heaven if you ask me! The sheep is stamped on an Inchie+ square (1 1/2 inches square), then I filled it in with some Liquid Applique. The doodles on the Inchie+ were done using a green Spica pen.

The striped ribbon is from Cosmo Cricket's Earth Love collection and the orange ribbon is from Martha Stewart. Pretty simple, but fun and I like the bright colors right about now!

Thanks for looking! Stay warm!

All things grow with love

I made this card for the Mojo Monday 118 sketch challenge. The background paper is from October Afternoon's Report Card collection (Bus Route). The striped paper is its reverse side. The stamps are from Papertrey Ink's Everyday Button Bits set. The card stock is PTI's Spring Moss and the buttons and twine are also from PTI. My faux stitching was done using a Mint Copic Spica pen.

Hope you are enjoying the last of the holiday weekend - I'm not ready to go back to work tomorrow. We've got a pot of Jambalaya on the stove and will watch a movie after dinner for our last night before heading back to the grind! Thanks for looking!